What is Podman?

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 What is Podman?

Podman is a daemonless container engine for developing, managing, and running OCI Containers on your Linux System. Containers can either be run as root or in rootless mode. 

Simply put, alias docker=podman. Quickly test drive using Podman Desktop. To read more on Podman technical visit here.


Podman versus Kaniko, versus Docker? So much innovation last year with all the above visit my previous blog.

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Federated user activity made easy

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 Federated user activity made easy. The other day I was auditing a sandboxed account in AWS and started investigating resources connected to a federated role for a group of students that are no longer enabled on the account. I noticed a few objects that should have been elsewhere or terminated after the fact, regardless, neither here nor there. After about 30 minutes of sifting through logs, creating custom queries, and trying to put them together, I lost interest because of the time and day-to-day priorities. I felt this was a good use case for me to test out some of the functionality of CloudGuard's investigation and correlation engine within the platform and try out this voice-over platform. Enjoy - Video below: if you feel inclined to research further, visit the product page
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Google Cloud: Container Registry will be replaced by Artifact Registry

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Spoiler Alert: (you've got some time) Container Registry will be replaced by Artifact Registry. Please upgrade your projects to Artifact Registry before March 18, 2025. On March 18, 2025 , Container Registry will be replaced by Artifact Registry . We understand this change may affect your production workloads, so we've put together resources to make this transition as smooth as possible for you. What do you need to know? To retain access to your container images, please take note of these critical dates and actions you need to take related to the Container Registry shutdown: March 18, 2025: You will no longer be able to push new images to Container Registry. April 22, 2025: You will lose access to existing images in Container Registry. To maintain access, you must copy them to the Artifact Registry before this date. May 22, 2025: All requests to the gcr.io domain will be handled exclusively by Artifact Registry. Ensure the Artifact Registry...
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Meet Kaniko

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So, what is kaniko? Kaniko is a tool to build container images from a Dockerfile inside a container or Kubernetes cluster. Another great callout for me is that my CI provider, GitLab makes it super easy to implement in my pipelines. Kaniko doesn't depend on a Docker daemon and executes each command within a Dockerfile entirely in userspace. This enables building container images in environments that can't easily or securely run a Docker daemon, such as a standard Kubernetes cluster. How does Kaniko work? The kaniko executor image is responsible for building an image from a Dockerfile and pushing it to a registry. Within the executor image, we extract the filesystem of the base image (the FROM image in the Dockerfile). We then execute the commands in the Dockerfile, snapshotting the filesystem in userspace after each one. After each command, we append a layer of changed files to the base image (if there are any) and update image metadata. Highly recommend visiting their  repo  ...
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